The Yiddish Book Center's
Wexler Oral History Project
A growing collection of in-depth interviews with people of all ages and backgrounds, whose stories about the legacy and changing nature of Yiddish language and culture offer a rich and complex chronicle of Jewish identity.
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Larry Rosenwald, professor of English at Wellesley College, translator, and translation theorist speaks about a translation of Itzik Manger he worked on with his dear friend and advisor Sacvan Bercovitch. You can find the English translation here: https://www.yiddishbookcenter.org/language-literature-culture/yiddish-t…
This is an excerpt from an oral history with Larry Rosenwald.
This excerpt is in English.
Larry Rosenwald was born in Chicago, IL in 1948.
This interview is part of the Yiddish in the Academy: scholars, language instructors, and students series.